A new raphitomine neogastropod from the Mediterranean Sea (Conoidea)

Raphitoma villaria n. sp. is described from Taormina (Sicily) and is compared with the closely related R. leufroyi (Michaud, 1828). Differential characters are given for the protoconch, the adult shell, and the colour pattern of the living animal. Raphitoma villaria n. sp. lacks a radula which is present in R. leufroyi. The new species has been confused with R. erronea (Monterosato, 1884), which is a different species.